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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.


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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.



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Adolescence is like cactus.



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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.



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Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.



Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.



Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.



Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.



You cannot save people. You can only love them.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.



When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.



The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.





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Let no one steal your peace.



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A bad ending follows a bad beginning.



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At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.



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I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.



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Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.



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At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.



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I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.




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